1 The gigantic Front-de-Boeuf, armed in sable armour, was the first who took the field.
2 They drew together in a dark line of spears, from which the white cloaks of the knights were visible among the dusky garments of their retainers, like the lighter-coloured edges of a sable cloud.
3 The masses of furze and heath to the right and left were dark as ever; a mere half-moon was powerless to silver such sable features as theirs.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 4 To the north-eastward, the glare of snow lay under the starlight of the sable sky and I could see an undulating crest of hillocks pinkish white.
5 Here, indeed, in the sable simplicity that generally characterised the Puritanic modes of dress, there might be an infrequent call for the finer productions of her handiwork.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE 6 But we perhaps exaggerate the gray or sable tinge, which undoubtedly characterized the mood and manners of the age.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY 7 However, at nine o'clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable collar and cap, went out for his usual walk.
8 A handsome, slim, and pale-faced gypsy girl with glittering black eyes and curly blue-black hair, wearing a red shawl, ran out with a sable mantle on her arm.
9 On each side stood a sable bush-holly or yew.
10 But already the sable wing was before the old man's eyes; the long hooked bill at his head: with a scream, the black hawk darted away with his prize.
11 Meanwhile, Mr. Waldengarver, in a frightful perspiration, was trying to get himself out of his princely sables.